Mind has the nature of a soft element. It will be easier to concentrate it at your center when you deal with it softly and gently. We don’t like anyone to force us to do something. We appreciate it so much more when people ask us kindly. It is the same for your mind; never …
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To remind oneself of any good deed that you have done in the past can be also a very good way to start to meditate. In each and every life there are always some moments that we appreciate ourselves very much. It could be any moment you helped somebody with a particular condition and you …
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Basic knowledge of meditation Is it hard to meditate? Some of the people who start meditating may find themselves struggling, bored of it, or don’t get any experience that they expect to have. The main reason that causes those problems may come from the lack of understanding of the true meaning of meditation. And focusing …
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A Feeling of Vast Space After you relax your body well and you feel really peaceful, you can imagine you are sitting in the middle of a vast space. For example, imagine you are sitting far away from the earth.Around you is emptiness. You are free and alone. You are sitting in the middle of …
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To close your Eyes Please pay attention to your eyes closing. Close them as gently as you can. Let your upper eye lids fall down slowly and naturally. Your upper and lower eyelids will not quite touch. You can feel that a little light can pass through little gap between your upper and lower eyelids. …
There is another important principle. To meditate, you need to know how to be comfortable. Any uncomfortable condition will not support our mind to be still. To persevere against any uncomfortable condition such as pain, heat, or cold is not the way. If you have to fight, it will not be peaceful. In the beginning …
Education is a way to develop people. We start to be developed since we were so young. Parents send us to school. We are in school to learn. The higher we learn, we more we develop our thinking so it becomes more and more complicated and more sophisticated. A higher degree, or higher education means …
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In physics, we first learnt about Newtonian physics and later about quantum physics. Sir Isaac Newton was the one who could start to explain the universe with logic. It has become a foundation of our scientific knowledge. Anywhere we are in the world, we have to learn what he explained 300 years ago. One simple …
When you focus your mind at the center, please appreciate that you are not looking with your eyes anymore. When we see with our eyes, the world in front of us is a 3 dimensional world. We can measure the size or distance of everything we see. When you close your eyes, it’s different. You …
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We would like to introduce ‘The Middle Way’ technique. In our school we consider that meditation has the objective to calm our mind or even to let it become still, or to ‘stop’ our mind. It is better if we focus to a still point. If we focus to something that moves, it can help …
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